Safe Stretch Stretching is a powerful tool that has many benefits: it can help make movement easier, increase your physical fitness, counter the effects of ageing, improve your posture, reduce stress, ease muscle pain and fatigue and it can help prevent injury from over lifting at work and during sports and other types of exercise. If you are relatively inactive and lead a sedentary lifestyle then stretching helps compensate. Stretching is an important component to staying healthy and supple, it can be done anywhere, anytime and best of all it is free Safe Stretch

Chapter Examples

• Throwing a ball

  Throwing is used in many sports to propel an object over distance. The object is usually a ball but may be a knife, axe, or javelin. The type of object, its shape and size will influence how the object is thrown. These are the stretches for throwing a..

  
  

• Volleyball and beach volleyball

  Volleyball is a team sport involving two teams of six players separated by a net. It is played inside or outside on a rectangular court that is wood, grass or on sand as beach volleyball. Each team attempts to score points by grounding a ball on the other..

  
  

• Walking, running and sprinting

  Walking, running and sprinting are the actions of moving the body forward. Similar muscles are used in all these actions. But the mechanics and the level of muscle contraction and aerobic respiration are different. Muscles are mainly used for support..